Related papers: Structure and properties of small sodium clusters
In this study, we investigate effects of boron substitution on the structural and electronic properties of small tungsten clusters using density functional theory (DFT). We construct a series of tungsten boride clusters by replacing…
The existence of shell structure and the accompanying high degeneracy of electronic levels leads to the possibility of strong superconducting pairing in metallic nanoclusters with N~100-1000 delocalized electrons. The most favorable cases…
In this paper we report a theoretical study of the static dipole polarizability of two one-dimensional structures: (a) linear carbon chains C$_{n} (n=2-10)$ and (b) ladder-like planar boron chains B$_{n} (n=4-14)$. The polarizabilities of…
We examine the structure and dynamics of small isolated $N$-particle clusters interacting via short-ranged Morse potentials. "Ideally preprared ensembles" obtained via exact enumeration studies of sticky hard sphere packings serve as…
Size-selected anionic silicon clusters, Sin- (n=14-20), have been investigated by photoelectron spectroscopy and density functional theory (DFT) calculations. Low-energy structures of the clusters are globally searched for by using a…
An implementation of the Hartree-Fock (HF) method capable of robust convergence for well-behaved arbitrary central potentials is presented. The Hartree-Fock equations are converted to a generalized eigenvalue problem by employing a B-spline…
We find that for simple metal clusters a single-electron description of the ground state employing self-interaction correction (SIC) in the framework of local-density approximation strongly contaminates the high energy photoionization cross…
The magnetic dipole and electric quadrupole hyperfine constants of Aluminium ($^{27}Al$) atom are computed using the relativistic coupled cluster (CC) and unitary coupled cluster (UCC) methods. Effects of electron correlations are…
In this study, we employ density functional theory (DFT) to investigate the structural and electronic properties B$_8$Cu$_3^-$ clusters -- boron-based frameworks doped with three copper atoms. The results indicate that the lowest-energy…
Spectroscopic properties of low-lying states and cluster structures in $^{12}$C are analyzed in a "beyond mean-field framework" based on global energy density functionals (EDFs). To build symmetry-conserving collective states,…
Sodium atoms and clusters (N<5) on graphite (0001) are studied using density functional theory, pseudopotentials and periodic boundary conditions. A single Na atom is observed to bind at a hollow site 2.45 A above the surface with an…
Metallic solids are a challenging target for wavefunction-based electronic structure theories and have not been studied in great detail by such methods. Here, we use coupled-cluster theory with single and double excitations (CCSD) to study…
The properties and applications of metallic nanoparticles are inseparably connected not only to their detailed morphology and composition, but also to their structural configuration and mutual interactions. As a result, the assemblies often…
Electronic structure methods for accurate calculation of molecular properties have a high cost that grows steeply with the problem size, therefore, it is helpful to have the underlying atomic basis functions that are less in number but of…
In this work, we employ density functional theory (DFT) to explore the structure of boron clusters doped with two chromium atoms (B$_7$Cr$_2$). The results show that the most stable structure is a bipyramidal configuration formed by a B$_7$…
We have used the stabilized spin-polarized jellium model to calculate the equilibrium sizes of metal clusters. Our self-consistent calculations in the local spin-density approximation show that for an $N$-electron cluster, the equilibrium…
The structural and bonding properties of small neutral alkali-halide clusters (AX)n, with n less than or equal to 10, A=Li, Na, K, Rb and X=F, Cl, Br, I, are studied using the ab initio Perturbed Ion (aiPI) model and a restricted structural…
This study investigates the structural stability of ionized gold clusters of sizes ranging from 22 to 100 atoms, contrasting compact, cage and planar structures. While it is well known that neutral clusters in the upper part of this size…
We present a novel theory and implementation for computing coupled electronic and quantal nuclear subsystems on a single potential energy surface, moving beyond the standard Born-Oppenheimer (BO) separation of nuclei and electrons. We…
We study the composition dependent evolution of geometric and magnetic structures of MnO clusters within density functional theory. A systematic and extensive search through the potential energy surface is performed to identify the correct…